Donnerstag in Wien!

Members made this possible. Collective action requires the collective. Whether MLA, AHA, or another society, please join, engage, and participate. Together, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things.

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Ich erst! Und sehr gespannt, welche (hoffentlich guten) Geister diese Séance so channeln wird.

‘Step by step, Germany is transformed. Sally Carson spares her readers no detail of the disaster as it evolves.’ Dinah Birch reads novels exploring the rise of Nazism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Diederichsen zu Thomalla und Goll: "Was wir aber amüsiert verachteten, war eher das Flutschen als das Stocken" blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

Looking forward to Tuesday! www.instagram.com/p/DV8bFZHCDJ...

Vor 31 Jahren warnte der wissenschaftliche Beirat der #BuReg in einem Bericht an Umweltministerin #Merkel vor einer #Klimakatastrophe. @umweltministerium.de

So niedrig wie seit über 400 Jahren nicht mehr ist nicht nur unsere Lust, die Nachrichten zu lesen, sondern auch die Verwendung von Kohle in Großbritannien. Das Ergebnis: Die britischen CO₂-Emissionen sind 2025 um 2,4 % gesunken – auf den niedrigsten Stand seit mehr als 150 Jahren. #Energiewende

‘Myth-laden as they were, the medieval legends were in one sense more modern than those of the 16th and 17th centuries because they still conceived of insular history as an interdependent whole.’ Barbara Newman on the myths behind the British Isles. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“The conservation effort, which spanned 1933 through 1944, was one of the longest projects carried out by the Nazi regime, Dr. Blewett said.”How Bookbinders Used Old Records to Help the Nazis Find Their Victims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

Following the Nazi occupation of France, “many of the refugees” from Hitler’s Germany “converged on Marseille, France’s sole port not in Nazi hands, hoping to find a way out.” —Maurice Samuels

‘The infrastructure of posts and couriers that served states and merchants laid the foundations for a revolution in communications.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Im Gutenberg-Museum zu Mainz findet sich diese schöne Tafel.

Best Christmas book haul

Thank you, John! wp.me/p6CEJx-Mi6